Vladmir Nabokov the Russian Years de Boyd Brian - 1990

Princeton Univ., 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. Vladimir Nabokov by Boyd, Brian The Russian Years Princeton Univ., 1990, lst. ISBN: 0691067945 Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover with gold embossing on spine is clean, dust jacket shows little if any sign of wear. This covers the Russian Years of Nabokov who is considered one of the great twentieth-century writers. Uprooted by the Revolution and then WWII he became a permanent wanderer and did not achieve fame until late in life with Lolita. It covers his life from childhood through the period at the end of WWII. B&W photos, abbreviations, notes, index, 605 pages.